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Poitiers
Conference, symposium - Representation
La Méditerranée des architectes et le monde (XVIII-XXe siècle)
Ce colloque porte sur le thème de l’exil des architectes dans le pourtour de la Méditerranée et au-delà, depuis le milieu du XVIIIe siècle jusqu’aux décennies récentes. L’exil à l’époque contemporaine, traversée par de nombreux conflits et changements politiques, est riche de récits, bien documenté concernant la trajectoire contrainte des artistes, écrivains, cinéastes et intellectuels, mais il ne l’est que partiellement sur les architectes, alors que leur circulation migratoire entre continents s’est accentuée. L’exil pendant la période moderne reste également à explorer.
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Paths, braiding, hybridizations: a planetary history of architecture and the urban
Revue « Transversale, histoire, architecture, urbain, paysage » n°9 (2025)
What we will question for this issue 9 of Transversale is how an architect's perspective and practice are formed when he travels or receives instruction abroad, and whether or not this results in a weaving of influences; is to question architecture as a paradigmatic cultural crossroads: figures of astonishing travelers-architects naturally, but also methods, processes, measurements, itineraries, flows...
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Paris
Underground Monuments in the Literatures and the Arts of the Global South
During this conference, we will aim to question the modalities through which an underground power could be exercised and embodied, one that refuses to establish domination, whether through its actions or through the signs that materialize it. We propose to conduct this reflection from the perspective of the Global South, as spaces that are often identified, notably, by the subordinate position they are deemed to occupy within historical, cultural, and economic power relations in colonial or postcolonial contexts. Reflecting on the conditions under which an underground force and monumentality might emerge could allow for a reconfiguration of the established balances within the Global South, by considering other criteria for defining power.
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Paris
Architecture of the Past: inspiration for the Future
Architecture, in response to universal needs, has developed in various forms, in diverse environments, and consequently offers a multiplicity of solutions. This diversity of construction types is of interest to numerous disciplines that do not often have the opportunity to exchange ideas. The aim of this interdisciplinary event is to bring together archaeologists, historians, architects, artisans, conservators, restorers, and ethnologists to share their work and research on architectural practices and structures that are relevant to approach current and future environmental, social, and economic challenges. This event will also discuss how the architecture of tomorrow is also invented with an eye to the past, whether it be sophisticated or vernacular, regardless of materials, period, or geographical and cultural area. A list of themes are suggested and detailed in the full call for proposal.
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Paris
Iconoclasm, Reenactments, and Alternative Commemorations in the United States since 2000
As demonstrated by Wendy Bellion’s scholarship, iconoclasm lies at the foundation of the United States. Yet Bellion also shows us that, rather than being sealed in the past, iconoclastic projects continue into the present. Iconoclastic destruction invariably entails creation—whether it is the construction of new monuments to replace the toppled ones, or the coalescence of a new community, movement, or nation. This conference seeks to bring together scholars interested in monuments and their destruction, public history and public art, historical reenactments, memory studies, and artistic practices across diverse media. We invite papers that evaluate recent commemorative projects, examine acts of iconoclasm and their aftermath, and study or propose novel approaches to representing historic events.
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Montreal
Call for papers - Urban studies
The unresolved tensions of mass housing
Session in the Society of Architectural Historians Conference 2023
This session invites contributions that examine the diffusion and transformation of mass housing projects worldwide. It focuses on how the processes and outcome of housing projects relate to programs of social reform, restructuring or coercion, in various cultural and political contexts from the 1920s to recent years.
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Detroit
Conference, symposium - Urban studies
Reinventing Public Space in Business Improvement Districts
Over the last two decades, public space renewal in downtown Detroit, as in other cities, has undergone phases of experimentation in response to emerging phenomena that put pressure on existing governance models. This includes most notably “metropolitanization,” referring to the increasing geographical scales of interdependence developing in response to the stalemate coming from increasing partisan bickering and shrinking subsidies that have negatively impacted the provision of public services at local levels. New public space governance models based on a large range of partnership forms have emerged in this context and in response to the need to reimagine urban identities, which are critical in ensuring global competitiveness.
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Vaulx-en-Velin
Leçons pour penser et concevoir un monde plus habitable
Ces journées d’étude organisées par l’École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Lyon ont une double ambition : offrir un nouvel éclairage sur les apports théoriques de cette figure féminine majeure de l’architecture du XXe siècle ; explorer les résonances de son œuvre éditoriale, dessinée et construite avec des préoccupations contemporaines qui touchent au rapport au paysage et au vivant, à l’habitabilité du monde, et au retour à une pratique de l’architecture plus proche des savoirs artisanaux.
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Grenoble
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Urban studies
Mississippi Delta Communities Facing Disappearing Land
"Still on the Map!" takes as its context the Mississippi Delta fifteen years after Hurricane Katrina and about five years after the commissioning of the major new "100-year" flood protection infrastructure. Expressed from its title -a statement of resistance/resilience chanted by many inhabitants during ecological events in Louisiana- this research project aims to describe the links and "attachments" (LATOUR, 2017) that different communities in the delta maintain with their geographical environment in a situation of strong ecological tipping point, integrating the natural and artificial infrastructures of the watershed into the definition of ecosystems as socio-political actors in their own right. In a context where the delta's land is gradually sinking into the sea, every hour the surface area of a football pitch is permanently flooded.
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Paris
City and architecture - conflictual relations?
Representations, theories, practices, heritages (19th-20th centuries)
Dans les villes européennes et américaines du XIXe et du XXe siècle, quels rapports lient l’architecture et la ville ?
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Paris
Raw or baked? Bricks in heritage buildings
Poser son regard sur une brique, et c’est toute l’histoire de l’humanité qui surgit. Extraite à main d’homme de la terre, crue ou cuite, la brique possède une histoire culturelle et sociale hors normes. Qualifiée de matériau ingrat générant des formes « froides » et géométriques, ou, au contraire, ouvrant et étendant à l’infini le champ des techniques constructives, la brique incarne à elle seule des valeurs antinomiques dans le patrimoine bâti. Module pérenne et fragile, élément constitutif de structure et décor structurant, unique et reproductible (revisitant ainsi fortement la notion d’authenticité), vecteur d’interactions fortes avec son environnement et matériau d’isolation, creuse et pleine, les recherches actuelles portant sur les facettes de ce matériau simple et complexe seront abordées dans le contexte du projet de conservation-restauration du bâti patrimonial.
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Paris
Between Rome and Las Vegas - France in the 1980s and the postmodern condition
Cette journée d’étude sera consacrée principalement aux années 1980 et aux multiples facettes d'un débat qui a vu la France protagonistes du renouvellement de la scène architecturale et de la remise en cause du "paradigme moderniste". La double influence du débat anglais et italien fait de la France un cas de synthèse emblématique de ces deux courants.
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Paris
Scholarship, prize and job offer - Representation
Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and South-East Asia
The Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) in Paris is a public research institute and a public research library specifically dedicated to art history. For 2019, the INHA launches a new call for three 3-months grants for art historians from the following regions: Eastern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and South-East Asia.
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Evora
Call for papers - Representation
I Jornadas Ibero Americanas de Jovens Investigadores em Património Industrial
As I Jornadas Ibero Americanas de Jovens Investigadores em Património Industrial surgem a partir da necessidade de criar um espaço de encontro e de promoção das investigações e metodologias dos trabalhos promovidos por jovens investigadores neste campo de estudo patrimonial. A criação de fóruns, debates e espaços de reflexão, é muito importante para dar visibilidade à investigação, para partilhar conhecimentos e estabelecer redes de colaboração e para sensibilizar os jovens, em particular os jovens investigadores de Património Industrial, para a sua importância na sociedade actual, como novo recurso e oportunidade de trabalho e emprego.
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Addis Ababa
Call for papers - Urban studies
Place-based approaches to emerging architectural, urban design and planning challenges in Africa and the Global South
The fast paced urbanization and mushrooming of metropolitan areas in Africa and the Global South especially in connection with rights and access to basic services, have attracted much attention in the last decades from the public, local experts, decision-makers and international stakeholders. In parallel, other built environments such as emerging small towns, shrinking cities and rural areas are now experiencing important pressures and changes, and are increasingly coming under the spotlight.
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Nantes
3rd seminar of the history of of architecture teaching in the 20th century (HEnsA20)
Troisième séminaire
Le programme du prochain séminaire Histoire de l’enseignement de l’architecture au XXe siècle (HEnsA20) comporte deux volets : d’une part, il propose des éclairages et des témoignages sur l’histoire de deux écoles ; de l’autre, il comporte un ensemble de communications en réponse à l’appel portant sur le thème de l’enseignement au prisme des échanges internationaux.
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Villeneuve-d'Ascq
Call for papers - Urban studies
What remains of projects? Approaches, methods and shared issues
20th internation conference of the Association for the promotion of teaching and research in urban and regional planning (APERAU)
« Projet ». On se prendrait à rêver d’un monde existant sans ce terme aussi chargé de sens que mécaniquement reproduit et peu questionné. De quoi le projet n’est-il donc pas le nom, d’ailleurs ? Tantôt ou tout à la fois urbain, métropolitain, de développement (durable), de territoire, agricole, grand, structurant, multi-acteur, multi-dimensionnel, négocié, complexe, emblématique, etc, le projet ne manque pas de qualificatifs. De quoi le projet n’est-il donc pas le nom, d’ailleurs ? Un outil, une catégorie autant qu’un dogme, mais surtout une étonnante métaphore plurielle, dont l’incroyable succès tient entre autre à sa très grande plasticité.
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Mulhouse
Conference, symposium - Representation
Art, a machine for travelling through time
Le voyage dans le temps est un vieux rêve de l’humanité, qui, comme tous les vieux rêves de l’humanité, a trouvé sa place (privilégiée) dans la littérature et dans les arts. Ce colloque sera donc l’occasion de voyager à la fois dans le temps et à travers les arts, puisqu’il sera question, pendant ces quatre jours, non seulement de littérature, mais aussi d’architecture, de peinture, de danse, de musique, de cinéma, de photographie, de bande dessinée…
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Lviv
Visions and Experiences of Urban Change in the Second World
This conference examines socialist cities at their points of entry or exit from the socialist project. The theme of transition into and out of socialism and the (un-)making of socialist cities serves as entry points into broader discussions about the specificity of urban change in the Second World and its relationship to similar currents in the global North and South. The conference examines the content of the socialist city – its “ins and outs” – from power grids and housing stocks to museums and places of worship at these points of transition.
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Bologna
Actors and Vehicles of Architectural Criticism
Architectural Criticism 20th and 21st Centuries, a Cartography
This second international workshop takes into consideration the actors and the vehicles of criticism: with these terms it refers to both the agents of criticism (critics, architects, historians, publishers, photographers, institutions, etc.) and the media through which criticism is disseminated (press, photography, exhibitions, etc.). The workshop aims to expand the knowledge about the specific functions of these actors and their networks and to outline their mutual relationships. The four sessions investigate the links between the actors, the media of criticism, and the historical contexts within which they materialize, as well as the cultural, intellectual, and institutional milieus from which they originate.
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